They were family, Clint Braddock, manhunter and man killer. Elizabeth Brannock, passionate idealist and courageous freedom fighter. Lon Braddock, icy gambler and lightning gunman, proud of the Indian strain in his blood. Jennifer Brannock, determined to win respect as a doctor, yet wondering if she could find happiness as a woman. Hank Brannock, a teenager at the crossroads between the law and the lawless.

Ties of blood bound them together - but in a New Mexico territory aflame with violence...where two kinds of people, and two ways of life, moved towards savage showdown...unbending Brannock pride and iron Brannock will threatened to rip them apart...